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This study shows the relationship between the Korean traditional rituals and their communities and how the communities perceive the dances in the rituals through the analysis of the event pamphlets. This research chooses three representative rituals such as Gangneung Danoje, Yeongsanjae, and Jongmyo Jerye. Although pamphlets seem to be small, they are a important value as archive material to show the vivid contemporary information. This study used Robert E. Stake's instrumental case study. An analysis of the pamphlets of the three ritual events shows the relationships between the organizers and the events. This may allows us to guess how the organizers aware the importance of the dances. This research points the importance of archiving not only for the next generations but also for us.

While research on injuries in dance is underdeveloped compared to research on sports injuries, the data clearly show that dancers experience a substantial number of injuries. Unfortunately, however, dancers generally do not have the same access to specialized healthcare that athletes do. As a result, many of their injuries are either improperly treated or not treated at all. A university is an ideal place in which to provide dance medicine care because of its typically well-controlled academic environment and its formative processes for university dancers that are designed to train the dancers for successful careers in dance performance or other dance-related professions. Appropriate attention to health, wellness, injuries, and healthcare should receive attention as part of this education. This paper identifies the framework needed for providing clinical management of dance injuries in a university. Essential to providing healthcare for dancers is an interdisciplinary collaboration between dance and health sciences. There are several ways such an association can be implemented, with all of them focused on ensuring that dancers can dance at a high level while experiencing optimum health and wellness. Among the possibilities are hiring a healthcare provider to work in the dance department, organizing specialized care with the university’s student health service, and creating relationships with interested healthcare professionals in the university’s community. Whichever method is incorporated, the needs of the university’s dancers must be the primary focus.

Dance Wellness means practical education activity that actively promotes integrated development of humans. It includes not only healthy lives and improvement on performing ability of dancers but also meaning on wellness through dance. Overtraining with regard to dancer wellness leads to the deterioration of body function, thereby incurring injury or disturbing to express dance techniques. Pilates has been applied to as a training method for enhancing bodily functions and health care of dancers who have undergone problems due to excessive physical activity. Since visiting University of California, Irvine (UCI) in 2012, I have been carrying out research on Diane Diefenderfer’s Pilates Specialization for Dance Studies (PSDS) so far. In 2013, I introduced Diane’s PSDS at the 15th international conference organized by Korea National University of Arts, department of dance theory. After that, in both 2014 and 2018, I visited her studio (Studio du corps) on-site and conducted participant observation, interview, and data research. She has been succeeded classical Pilates of Ron Fletcher and Romana Kryzanowska and developed her own technique, with stretching for dancers included. The study was executed by dealing with emphasizing cognitive process in Pilates learning and aiming at enhancement on mind-body regulation capability by utilizing music. The class was held once a week for 14 weeks, comprising of one movement instructor and music therapist respectively, two participant observers, six students, and two video filmmakers. Those participants have recorded and analyzed their changing processes via observation, Journaling, video filming, interview, and so on. The main focuses on given class are first, promoting myoneural vitalization of core through prep works as well as analyzing one’s habitual posture and behavior pattern. Second, applying the most adequate Pilates music after watching myoneural function reacting to various music. Likewise, as a result of study, students recognized their postures and behavior patterns, and also the regulation capability on core muscles became strengthened, hence unnecessary physical tension turned out to be alleviated. In addition, sensory feedback with music dropped tension in muscles and heightened practice efficiency.

This research is animated by a curiosity about the relationship between North Korean dances and Vietnamese dances. in 1960s, North Korea used dances as the North Korean Soft Power. North Korean dancers were invited in Vietnam as ballet masters. They contributed to lay a cornerstone of the Vietnamese dance after the French colonial period. The North Korean ballet master, Kim Te Hwang found the Vietnam Academy of Dance (Học viện Múa Việt Nam) which is the first dance school in Vietnam. At the same time, he adapted the Vietnamese traditional dances to his dance pieces. The Flame of Nghệ Tĩnh (Ngọn lửa Nghệ Tĩnh), first produced in 1960, is considered to be both his’s masterpiece and a cornerstone of contemporary Vietnamese ballet. Through the sharing their colonial experiences and advocating nationalism, North Korean dancers effectively aroused sympathy from the Vietnamese audience.

This study is the phenomenological research that examined the process by which those parents of a child with disability who had experienced depression and parenting stress would achieve inner growth and overcome difficulties by experiencing the healing program including music and dance. This study analyzed the experiences of the 3 parents of a child with disability who had participated in the 7 sessions of healing program on the basis of the phenomenological method of Giorgi (2002). As a result, this study deducted the 10 sub-components and the 5 components from the 55 meaning units. The components included “the time for which one is being stuck in grief”, “the time for which one experiences after preparing for a change”, “the time for which one’s self-esteem is being improved as being comforted”, “the time for which one experiences transcendent love” and “the time for which one has a peace of mind after re-birth”. This study found that the aforementioned participants could sublimate their negative self-image into a positive self-image by facing their grief through the healing program . Also, this study found that they could have an opportunity to heal themselves by having a new commitment in their life.